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Department of Economics

Department seminars

Second term, Jan. - Apr. 2025

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 10 No speaker this week    
Jan 17 Alison Johnston (Oregon State University) Bent into Submission? Foreign Investors, Domestic Investors, and Populist Governments Paul Schure
Jan 24 No speaker this week    
Jan 31 No speaker this week    
Feb 07 Kevin Schepnel (Simon Fraser University) The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S. Donn Feir
Feb 14 No speaker this week    
Feb 21 Reading Week    
Feb 28 Leonard Goff (University of Calgary) Measuring and Decomposing Bias: Theory and Evidence from Corruption Complaints in Peru (with Michael Best, Jonas Hjort, Dafne Murillo, and Gaston Pierri) Justin Wiltshire
Mar 07 Eric Protzer (Harvard Growth Lab) The Harvard Growth Lab and UVic Vasco Gabriel
Mar 14 Minjie Deng (Simon Fraser University) From Diaspora Dollars to Default Risk: Remittances and Sovereign Spreads  Ke Xu
Mar 21 Weixin Yao (UC Riverside) Semiparametric Partially Linear Varying Coefficient Modal Regression* Tao Wang
Mar 28 Martha Stinson (Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau) Tip of the Iceberg: Tip Reporting at U.S. Restaurants, 2005-2018 Justin Wiltshire
Apr 04

Giovanni Peri (UC Davis)

*Reid Elliott Lecture

 The Contribution of Foreign Master's Students to US Start-Ups Justin Wiltshire

First term, Sep. - Dec. 2024

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire. 

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.

Date Speaker Title Host
Sep 20 Amy Sun (Queens) Bank Loan Portfolio and Monetary Policy Ke Xu
Sep 27 Augustin Tapsoba (Toulouse School of Economics) Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa Donn Feir

Oct 4

*Lansdowne

BEC 363

 Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data Justin Wiltshire
Oct 11 Ian Luby (The Nature Conservancy) From Global Agreements to Local Action: The Role of Economics in Protecting the Planet Colette Salemi
Oct 18 Jing Tao (University of Washington) Post-Clustering Robust Inference Tao Wang
Oct 25 Witson Pena Tello (University of Barcelona) Policy Interactions and CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Generation Sector: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Katya Rhodes / Colette Salemi
Nov 1 Carl McPherson How Magnetic Can Welfare Be? Justin Wiltshire
Nov 8 Nicholas Carollo (Federal Reserve Board) The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Earnings and Employment: Evidence from State Policy Changes Jason Hicks
Nov 15 Mahdi Shariati Feizabadi Sport Geoeconometric  
Nov 22 Siwei Wang (Hunan University, China) Quantile Prediction with Factor-augmented Regression: Structural Instability and Model Uncertainty Tao Wang